An enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Are you crazy enough to be implying that your own government is your enemy? Public administration is necessary to any kind of social coordination and the reason you were able to leave that comment

Yes. Pick up a history book, study the constitution, the bill or rights, and you’ll see that the founders were also crazy enough.

The billionaires in this country may have many monopolies but the US Government has the monopoly on violance. Counter to what Star Troopers would lead you to believe, all power is derived from violence.

You are also wrong about public administration being necessary for social coordination and again you only need a history book to see this.

Pick up a history book

Collective action (government) is the only thing preventing you from being ruled by someone else’s collective action

That’s actually not true. See the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They’re documents that were written to guarantee and protect my rights as an individual. I was lucky to have been born in this time and place, look back or just around the world today and you will see countries without these arrangements. If you’re a US citizen and you don’t understand how lucky you are you need to travel more and read books. Get out of the city, and do it alone. You’ll see.

You were just arguing against this kind of government, but now you are all for it? Make up your mind. ‘the bill of rights’ means nothing without a government enforcing it.

In any case, this shows just how ignorant you are to the world around you. Documents protecting the rights of the populace aren’t exclusive to the US, nor were they the first to write them, look up the magna Carta, written in medieval times; or the Hammurabi code, one of the first written legal documents that protected the weak and the vulnerable

The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, in part protect the people from the government. Think about it.

The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights (which, btw, is part of the Constitution, so that’s redundant) are just pieces of paper. The only reason they mean anything is because of the implicit threat of violence/force by the state. It’s literally the way society exists.

No, the papers grant us rights if the government infringe they break the rules we break the rules.

Right, and whoever has more raw power wins. That’s what it boils down to, that’s real politik.

And who has the most raw power here, the largest (by far) military in the world? Or…?

The military is comprised of citizens with rights granted by the same documents. I bet there is a large overlap between US patriots and service members.

And your definition of “patriot” is probably very different than theirs.